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Letter #5751

Alfonso de VALDÉS to Ioannes DANTISCUS
[Madrid], [1528-08-19 — 1528-08-31]

English register:

On the advice of his friends Valdés intends to send Erasmus the “shameless Franciscan booklet” [Luis Carvajal, Apologia vitae monasticae diluens nugas Erasmi, Salamanca, 1528], so he asks Dantiscus to lend him a copy because he has none at this time. The package will be delivered to Erasmus by the messenger who brought Erasmus’ letter to Valdés dated April 24 [1528, a letter not recorded by Allen]. Valdés regrets he has no time to meet with Dantiscus because he would like to tell him about the campaign of the “papists” in connection with his “Roman dialogue.”




Manuscript sources:
1copy in Latin, 18th-century, BK, 222, No. 48, p. 189-190
2copy in Latin, 18th-century, BCz, 40 (TN), No. 254, p. 983 (c.p. 2)
3register with excerpt in Latin, English, 20th-century, CBKUL, R.III, 31, No. 302.23
4lost fair copy in Latin, AAWO, AB, D.130, No. 23

Auxiliary sources:
1register in Polish, 20th-century, B. PAU-PAN, 8245 (TK 7), f. 473

Prints:
1BOEHMER 1899 p. 396 (in extenso)
2DE VOCHT 1961 No. DE, 49, p. 36-37 (in extenso)
3Españoles part II, No. 43, p. 211 (Spanish translation)
4VALDÉS 1996 Cartas y documentos, No. 40, p. 111 (in extenso)
5CEID 2/3 (Letter No. 18) p. 171-172 (in extenso; English register; Polish register)

 

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Salutem.

Videtur omnino amicis omnibus impudentem illum cf. Luis de Carvajal, Apologia monasticae religionis diluens nugas Erasmi, Salamanca, 1528 ⌊libellum Franciscanumcf. Luis de Carvajal, Apologia monasticae religionis diluens nugas Erasmi, Salamanca, 1528 ⌋ mittendum esse ad Erasmus of Rotterdam (Gerrit Gerritszoon, Geert Geerts, Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus) (*1466/1469 – †1536), Dutch humanist and theologian, distinguished philologist, the most famous and influential humanist of the Northern Renaissance; his works had a profound impact upon Christian theology during the first half of the sixteenth century⌊ErasmumErasmus of Rotterdam (Gerrit Gerritszoon, Geert Geerts, Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus) (*1466/1469 – †1536), Dutch humanist and theologian, distinguished philologist, the most famous and influential humanist of the Northern Renaissance; his works had a profound impact upon Christian theology during the first half of the sixteenth century⌋. Quem existimant mecum expostulaturum, si minus mitterem. Habeo nuntium, qui litteras[1] ab eo attulit 8 Calendas Maii datas quique tuto meas se missurum pollicetur. Libellum praeter eum, quem penes te habes, nactus sum nullum, quare, si tibi usui non est, rogo, ut ad me mittas. Dabitur a me opera, ut quam primum alios habeamus. Si per otium liceret, venirem ad te, habeo enim papistarum tragoediam in meum cf. Alfonso de Valdés, Dialogo de las cosas acaecidas en Roma ⌊dialogum Romanensemcf. Alfonso de Valdés, Dialogo de las cosas acaecidas en Roma ⌋, sed non licet. Ergo vale.

Tuus Alfonso de Valdés (Alphonsus Valdesius) (*1500-1504 – †1532), Spanish humanist, friend of Erasmus of Rotterdam, brother of Juan and Diego; from 1520 in the service of the Imperial Chancellor Mercurino Gattinara; 1522 secretary of Emperor Charles V of Habsburg; 1526 Latin secretary (FERNÁNDEZ-SANTAMARÍA, p. 38-48; DE VOCHT 1961, p. 26)⌊ValdesiusAlfonso de Valdés (Alphonsus Valdesius) (*1500-1504 – †1532), Spanish humanist, friend of Erasmus of Rotterdam, brother of Juan and Diego; from 1520 in the service of the Imperial Chancellor Mercurino Gattinara; 1522 secretary of Emperor Charles V of Habsburg; 1526 Latin secretary (FERNÁNDEZ-SANTAMARÍA, p. 38-48; DE VOCHT 1961, p. 26)⌋

[1 ] An unknown letter of Erasmus to Valdes